A team of Russian physicists claims to have, for the first time, synthesized element 117. This element does not occur in nature and the sample was created in a laboratory:
A team led by Yuri Oganessian of the Joi...

A museum is under construction off the coast of Cancun. By the end of the year, divers may be able to visit four hundred sculptures in a maritime park:
The cement sculpture, called 'The Collector', shows a figure...

What happens if an axolotl drink some salamander goo? This video clip explains how axolotl remains in neoteny until its metamorphosis to a salamander is triggered when it is given hormones.If only all science lessons wer...

Yesterday I posed this thought to our Twitter and Facebook users: The world can be divided into two types of people: Those who squeeze the toothpaste in the middle (or anywhere, randomly), and those who must sque...

If you're feeling sick to your stomach yet doctors can't find anything wrong with you, it may be something you eat. Here's a story by Ed Rockey for the Los Angeles Times, where his food allergy was even misdiagnosed by a...

Heresy! Scrabble has recently announced that it is changing its rules to allow place names, people's names, and brands.A spokeswoman for the company said the use of proper nouns would "add a new dimension"...

New York City has over four hundred miles of coastline, and consequently the police and fire departments of that city need advanced boats that can fight crime, fires, and respond to disasters in the water. The Three...

One-hit wonders aren't restricted to music. Some giants of literature wrote only one novel, and you can view a list of them at the link. Among them is Anna Sewell, who wrote Black Beauty:
Sewell didn’t...

In 1931, a schoolboy wrote a fan letter to his favorite author, Edgar Rice Burroughs. It said, in part:
I am a fourteen year old boy and am a low Junior in High School. Today at school our teacher was discussing "go...

The award-winning game Small Worlds looks simple with its pixel graphics, but start exploring and the world becomes bigger. I could eat up a lot of time moving around in here! Link -via redditGame, pixels...

While most people look for the cheapest airfares, Rob Cockerham sought out the most expensive fares from several different airlines. Unsurprisingly, the priciest tickets were either last-minute bookings or sched...

Doyle Geddes, a teacher at Sky View High School in Smithfield, Utah, led 150 students through the construction of the world's largest recreation of Van Gogh's masterpiece Starry Night. The finished product was 72 feet by...

Take a look at a dozen of the most beautiful castles in Canada. Some are government buildings, some were built to attract tourists, and some are private creations by some of Canada's wealthiest citizens. Best of all, s...

This doesn't happen every day. Well, OK, it's never happened before. As Mission STS-131 blasts off with three women on board they will soon rendezvous with a fourth who arrived at the International Space Station ye...